This curious drawing was created around 1625 by an unknown artist from 17th-century France. Although the artwork is labeled with the nondescriptive title, Witchcraft,...
By the reign of Emperor Constans II of Constantinople (r. 641-668), the empire had long been plagued by fierce religious debates between the different...
This illustration, by the Norwegian artist Adolph Tidemand (1814-1876), depicts the death of powerful Jarl (or Earl) Hákon Sigurdsson of Lade. Jarl Hákon (also...
Historians (with their written records) and archaeologists or scientists (with their data and tested evidence) often can work in a complementary fashion, with each...
This curious drawing was created around 1625 by an unknown artist from 17th-century France. Although the artwork is labeled with the nondescriptive title, Witchcraft,...
The Buddha (c. 6th-5th century BCE)
"Having drunk the sap of solitude
and the savor of peace,
one is free of distress,
free from wrongdoing,
enjoying the delightful
flavor of...
This painting, by an unknown 17th-century artist, depicts the sad mythological tale of Apollo and Daphne, encapsulated in a wooded scene with an ornate...
Lucan (c. 39-65)
"Steep calamities
will come suddenly; it's a fast fall from the summits."
From Lucan’s Civil War (Book 5, approximately between lines 744-771), translated...
By the reign of Emperor Constans II of Constantinople (r. 641-668), the empire had long been plagued by fierce religious debates between the different...
Using military posturing and diplomatic negotiations with Norwegian vassals, King Canute (or Knut) the Great—ruler of England since 1016 and Denmark since 1019—was able...
This curious drawing was created around 1625 by an unknown artist from 17th-century France. Although the artwork is labeled with the nondescriptive title, Witchcraft,...
Pliny the Younger (c. 61/62-113) was a successful ancient Roman lawyer, bureaucrat, politician, and financial advisor who worked closely with the emperors of his...
Lucan (c. 39-65)
"Steep calamities
will come suddenly; it's a fast fall from the summits."
From Lucan’s Civil War (Book 5, approximately between lines 744-771), translated...
By the reign of Emperor Constans II of Constantinople (r. 641-668), the empire had long been plagued by fierce religious debates between the different...
This lithograph, made by Currier & Ives (operational c. 1834–1907) after the work of Dióscoro Teófilo de la Puebla Tolín (1831–1901), envisions the landing...
Mark Twain (c. 1835-1910)
"Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented...
